Gilbert Fitz Richard de Clare , Earl Hertford 
Gilbert Fitz Richard de was born before 1066 in Clare, Suffolk, England. Gilbert Fitz Richard de's mother was Rohese Giffard. His maternal grandparents were Walter I Giffard , Seigneur of Longueville and Agnes Flatel. He had a brother and a sister, named Robert and Rohese FitzRichard de. He was the second oldest of the three children. He died before 1117 in of Tonbridge, Kent, England & Cardigan, Wales. He was buried in Lord of Tunbridge, founded Priory of Clare, Lord of Cardigan.General Notes
Gilbert, feudal Lord of Clare, Suffolk and Cardigan, whose father Richard was son of the Count of Brionne, of an illegitimate line of the Dukes of Normandy). [Burke's Peerage]
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Gilbert de Tonebruge, who resided at Tonebruge and inherited all his father's lands in England, joined in the rebellion of Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumberland, but observing the king (William Rufus) upon the point of falling into an ambuscade, he relented, sought pardon, and saved his royal master. We find him subsequently, however, again in rebellion in the same reign and fortifying and losing his castle at Tunbridge. He m. in 1113, Adeliza, dau. of the Earl of Cleremont, and had issue, Richard, his successor, Gilbert, Walter, Hervey, and Baldwin. Gilbert de Tonebruge, who was a munificent benefactor to the church, was s. by his eldest son, Richard de Clare. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, London, 1883, p. 119, Clare, Lords of Clare, Earls of Hertford, Earls of Gloucester]
Gilbert m. Adeliza, dau, of the Earl of Claremont, and was father of Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford, and Gilbert de Clare, created Earl of Pembroke. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 230, Giffard, Earls of Buckingham]
They had three sons and five daughters, named Baldwin FitzGilbert de, Richard FitzGilbert de, Gilbert de, Hawise de, Agnes de, Alice de, Margaret de and Rohesia de.
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Children
Baldwin FitzGilbert de Clare , Lord of Bourne
Baldwin FitzGilbert de was born in 1088 in Clare, Suffolk, England. He died at the age of 66 in 1154 in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England.
Richard FitzGilbert de Clare , Earl of Hertford
Richard FitzGilbert de was born in 1090 in Hertford, Hertfordshire & Clare, Suffolk, England. He died at the age of 46 on April 15th, 1136 in Slain by Welsh near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. He was buried in Gloucestershire, England.
Gilbert de Clare , 1st Earl of Pembroke
Gilbert de was born on September 21st, 1100 in Tunbridge, Kent, England. He died in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales. He was buried in Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthsire, England.
Rohesia de Clare
Rohesia de was born about 1110 in Clare, Suffolk, England. She died in 1149 in England.
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